Press Release
12 March 2017
HANNOVER MESSE 2017 (24–28 April; Hannover, Germany):
HANNOVER MESSE trendspots – a glimpse of what’s coming to Hannover!
– No. 3
Time to pop the Champagne corks!
On board since the very first show in 1947, HARTING is celebrating its
70th anniversary hand in hand with HANNOVER MESSE this year and
looking ahead with great confidence.
When the gates to HANNOVER MESSE open on 24 April, there’s better
reason than ever to celebrate and take a bow, as the longstanding numberone industrial trade fair turns 70 this year. Better still, it is marking the
milestone in good company. A select group of exhibitors have successfully
notched up the full 70 years as well – one of them being the HARTING
technology group. The family-owned company from the eastern Westphalia
region of Germany has showcased itself and its products in Hannover,
without a single year off, since the very first trade fair in 1947. HARTING is
proudly
celebrating
this
achievement
under
the
birthday
banner
“HARTING@Hannover Messe: a strong connection for 70 years”.
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When Wilhelm Harting founded the company in 1945, he could surely never
have dreamed that by 2017 his grandchildren Philip and Maresa would be
managing a global technology group with around 4,300 employees and
steering the third-generation family-run company firmly on course for the
future. As a self-professed pioneer of the digital revolution, HARTING is
once again showcasing a host of innovative products and solutions for
Integrated Industry. A prime example is the newly developed HARTING ix
Industrial robust, miniaturized ethernet interface, which has the potential to
replace current RJ45s. “Integrated Industry creates added value. At this
year’s HANNOVER MESSE, we are demonstrating how HARTING products
and solutions truly boost customer benefits,” says Chairman of the Board
Philip Harting.
HARTING Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG (32427 Minden, Germany),
Hall 11, Stand C15
Contact: Michael Klose
Tel.: +49 5772 47-1744
Fax: +49 5772 47-400
E-Mail: [email protected]
End-to-end in the bag!
Dassault Systèmes, the “3DEXPERIENCE company”, is using cutting-edge
3D technologies at HANNOVER MESSE 2017 to demonstrate thoroughly
integrated, digitally supported value creation.
The digitalization of the value creation chain has been straining at the reins
for a number of years now. However, despite the optimism surrounding the
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fourth industrial revolution, new projects often run into serious problems in
practice. In fact, a significant proportion of Industry 4.0 initiatives get stuck
in the starting blocks. A recent study conducted by the market research
company IDC has shown that despite more and more pilot projects, the
number of initiatives that are actually implemented is stagnating. What’s
more,
just
five
percent
of
the
industrial
companies
surveyed
have
a
centralized data platform in place that networks all departments along the
value chain. This is where the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform from Dassault
Systèmes comes in. The multinational software development company is at
HANNOVER
MESSE
2017
to
demonstrate
thoroughly
integrated,
digitally
supported value creation.
Taking packaging manufacturer WestRock as an example, cutting-edge 3D
technologies including design, simulation and augmented reality are used to
visually and virtually track how an entire value creation chain is digitally
linked
as
an
end-to-end
process.
The
chain
extends
from
customer
requirements, development and production right through to market positioning
and
day-to-day
use.
Andreas
Barth,
Managing
Director
EuroCentral
at
Dassault Systèmes, explains the urgency for industrial companies to adopt
digital processes: “These companies are facing major challenges. By 2019,
three quarters of the world’s industrial companies will have digitalized their
value creation chains and thus be perfectly poised to boost their productivity.
Anyone who fails to make these adjustments in time will be left behind.”
Dassault Systemes Deutschland GmbH (70563 Stuttgart, Germany),
hall 6, Stand K30
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Contact: Carola von Wendland
Tel.:
+49 89 960 948 376
E-Mail: [email protected]
Tough and powerful
The Multilift II impact from RK Rose+Krieger is an electrically adjustable
lifting column with a unique damping system – making it exceptionally robust
and fit for harsh industrial conditions.
From guiding and adjustments to positioning and uniform handling, the
demands placed on linear motion sequences are as diverse as the solutions
available. However, as helpful as linear motion components can be in dayto-day operations, the technology used is inherently delicate, and can
sometimes suffer in harsh industrial conditions. This is something RK Rose +
Krieger GmbH has been working hard to address. This year, the company is
showcasing its exceptionally robust, electrically adjustable Multilift II impact
lifting column at HANNOVER MESSE.
The
Multilift II impact is available
in
a
range
of
lifting
heights
for
compressive and tensile forces of up to 3,000 N. A key unique feature is
the integrated damping system, which is specially designed to absorb the
kind of high-impact forces that can occur while unloading a workpiece. In
combination with its travel speeds of up to 8 mm/s, the Multilift II impact is
thus ideal for adjusting the height of industrial assembly tables. The lifting
column is also equipped with an integrated limit switch and a Hall-effect
sensor for positioning feedback. What’s more, assembly slots in the external
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profile make it easy to attach additional accessories such as screens, CPU
brackets or system reinforcements.
RK Rose + Krieger GmbH (32423 Minden, Germany), Hall 16, Stand E18
Tel.: +49 571 9335-0
Fax: +49 571 9335-119
E-Mail: [email protected]
The future is within touching distance
At HANNOVER MESSE 2017, SCHUNK GmbH & Co. KG, a leader in robot
technology and production machinery, is exhibiting new intelligent gripping
systems for smart production.
“Achieving the scenarios of Industry 4.0, human-robot collaboration and
service and assistance robotics calls for intelligent, dextrous and highly
networked
gripping
systems
that
can
automatically
identify
workpieces,
continuously sense the surrounding area, align themselves autonomously and
ensure safe and stable handling, even when working with a wide variety of
parts,” explains Dr. Markus Klaiber, Technical Director/CTO at SCHUNK, the
leading company for gripping and clamping systems. “Industrial gripping is set
to be revolutionized in the next five years,” he says. At HANNOVER
MESSE 2017, SCHUNK will be showing exactly how things will look in the
smart factory with numerous live applications.
In the area of human-robot collaboration alone, SCHUNK is exhibiting six
different
SCHUNK
Co-act
demonstrators
that
exemplify
the
potential
of
barrier-free collaboration between humans and robots in a variety of sectors.
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The highlight is the user-friendly SCHUNK Co-act gripper JL1, which is
equipped with capacitive and tactile sensor systems and is the world’s first
intelligent gripper able to interact and communicate directly with people.
SCHUNK is also presenting the 5-finger SCHUNK SVH hand, which sets
standards as the world’s first MRC gripper certified by the German Social
Accident Insurance Association (DGUV).
SCHUNK GmbH & Co. KG (D-74348 Lauffen), Halle 17, Stand B26
Contact: Sonja Aufrecht
Tel.:
+49 7133 103 2970
Mobile: +49 151 18800095
E-Mail: [email protected]
BabelFish for programming languages
It is well known that established and specialist software tools encounter
“communication problems” during parallel development processes, and that is
why Phoenix Contact is showcasing a new open control platform in Hannover
based on innovative PLCnext Technology.
Accelerated automation solutions are key to cutting development times and
thus being able to adapt production processes more quickly. This increasingly
requires a number of developers to work in parallel on an end-to-end
solution. However, these specialists often work with different software tools
that have variously proven their worth for specific working environments.
Although
it
may
seem
obvious
to
switch
from
these
tried-and-tested
programming tools to a standardized program for all programming languages
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to promote smooth collaboration, this is complex, costly and, what’s more,
presents drawbacks for programmers’ workflows. That’s why Phoenix Contact
is exhibiting a new open control platform at HANNOVER MESSE 2017 using
innovative PLCnext Technology.
The solution on show supports parallel programming based on established
software tools, such as Visual Studio, Eclipse, Matlab Simulink and PC
Worx, and fully flexible linking of the program code they create. PLCnext
Technology can therefore be used, for example, to combine functions as
specified in IEC 61131-3 with C/C++, C# and Matlab Simulink routines.
This ensures that even software from the open source community can be
easily integrated into the Phoenix Contact automation system.
Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co.KG (32825 Blomberg, Germany), Hall 9, Stand F40
Contact: Eva von der Weppen M.A.
Tel.: +49 52 35 3-41713
Fax: +49 52 35 3-41825
E-mail: [email protected]
Forging ahead
Highlighting the potential offered by casting techniques, DIHAG Holding,
represented
by
MEUSELWITZ
showcasing
state-of-the-art
GUSS
casting
and
solutions
Schmiedeberger
in
the
Casting
Gießerei,
is
Technology
themed display area at HANNOVER MESSE 2017.
At a time when HANNOVER MESSE is being dominated by digitalization,
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representatives of traditional heavy industry nonetheless still have their place.
What’s more, “heavy” should always be put into context. DIHAG Holding is
the largest independent foundry group in Western Europe and is being
represented
in
Hannover
by
MEUSELWITZ
GUSS
and
Schmiedeberger
Gießerei. These two companies alone produce complex castings ranging in
weight from 0.3 to 80,000 kilograms. It’s also clear that the DIHAG
foundries are very much a part of the dawning era of Industry 4.0, thanks
to their commitment to working as strategic partners to help companies
improve both productivity in manufacturing and the durability of complex cast
iron parts.
As a specialist in large and heavy castings, MEUSELWITZ GUSS focuses on
conserving resources and boosting cost efficiency. This iron foundry, based in
central Germany, doesn’t just advise its customers on optimum casting design
but is also at the forefront when it comes to selecting materials. The latest
product developments include solid-solution-strengthened structural materials
containing spheroidal graphite that can be easily processed and used to
produce heavy-duty components with a lightweight design, as are needed in
wind turbines, for example. Schmiedeberger Gießerei is currently focusing on
expanding in-house production. Since last year, this foundry – based in
Germany’s Saxony region – has been operating its own production facilities,
machining castings that weigh from 0.3 to 400 kilograms. Schmiedeberger
Gießerei
machines
components,
for
high-quality
instance,
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a
rough
castings
into
time-efficient process
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specifications, thus saving customers logistics and transportation costs at the
very least.
DIHAG Holding GmbH, represented by Schmiedeberger Gießerei GmbH and
MEUSELWITZ GUSS Eisengiesserei GmbH (45127 Essen, Germany),
Hall 5, Stand B18 (3/4)
Contact: Alexander Peske
Tel.:
+49 201 87245-0
E-mail:
[email protected]
Faster than the eye can see!
The new programmable InspectorP6xx camera range from SICK enables
maximum customization thanks to the powerful pre-installed HALCON image
processing library and the flexible design of web-based user interfaces.
Pretty much everyone will have seen on some documentary or other just
how astoundingly fast automated processes can be. The question is, how on
Earth can companies make sure everything is running as it should when the
processes are so fast they’re a blur? Clearly, the human eye just can’t
keep up. Fortunately, there are companies in Germany that lead the way
when it comes to quality control and checking completeness. One of these is
Waldkirch-based SICK AG, a technology and market leader for sensors that
form the perfect basis for automation processes. At HANNOVER MESSE
2017, the company is showcasing a brand new product family from the
Inspector range of vision sensors.
The new programmable InspectorP6xx camera family has been developed as
a
solution
for
particularly
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complex
image
processing
tasks.
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members of the family differ in terms of evaluation speed and camera sensor
resolution, but share an exceptional range of convenient functions such as
targeting lasers and acoustic and optical feedback. An SD memory card is
also included to make the devices even easier to set up and operate and
enable simple on-the-fly analyses. Thanks to the new SICK AppSpace
platform, SICK can offer system integrators and OEMs the freedom and
flexibility to develop their own customized application software directly on the
InspectorP6xx.
SICK AG (79183 Waldkirch, Germany), Hall 9, Stand F18
Contact: Christoph Müller
Tel.:
+49 7681 202 5172
Mobile: +49 172 630 54 77
Fax:
+49 7681 202 3419
E-Mail:
[email protected]
Never miss a thing!
The Fraunhofer IZFP is at HANNOVER MESSE 2017 to showcase “3D
SmartInspect”, an inspection system it hopes will revolutionize the technical
monitoring of safety-critical systems.
Safety-critical systems that can pose risks to people and the environment
when things go wrong need regular checks. Take automobiles, for example,
by law they must be inspected to ensure they are roadworthy – in some
countries on an annual basis. However, when it comes to high-pressure
containers,
turbines
and
generators
that
are
pushed
to
their
limits
to
maximize profitability, conducting these inspections can often be much trickier.
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Inspectors face tough demands and need a great deal of experience to be
able to accurately assess the condition of a huge variety of test subjects.
What’s more, they need to assess them in their entirety. That raises an
important question: When spending days examining a huge surface area, how
do you make sure your sensors don’t record some points several times
over, while completely missing others? Everyone who is familiar with the
Fraunhofer Institutes, will know that help is always close at hand. This time
it takes the form of 3D SmartInspect, a system that the Fraunhofer Institute
for Nondestructive Testing (IZFP) is unveiling at HANNOVER MESSE 2017.
At the moment, the system is still a prototype and is based on a tablet,
but it is soon to be expanded to include a version that uses AR glasses.
All the same, the benefits of the new system are already crystal clear:
“Inspectors know exactly what has already been measured as well as the
results of those measurements. The system also automatically generates a
digital protocol,” explains Prof. Bernd Valeske, head of department at IZFP.
This represents a quantum leap over current procedures. Thanks to 3D
SmartInspect, far fewer experienced inspectors will need to be deployed and
training times will also be cut. Besides making sure nothing is missed or
checked twice over for no reason, the system also independently verifies that
sensor data has been recorded correctly. “Not only can inspectors be sure
that they have collected 100 percent of the data, they also know that the
measurements are valid,” says Valeske.
Fraunhofer-Institut für Zerstörungsfreie Prüfverfahren (IZFP) (66123
Saarbrücken, Germany), Hall 2, Stand C22, co-exhibitor with FraunhoferGesellschaft
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Contact: Sabine Poitevin-Burbes
Tel.:
+49 681 9302-3869
Mobile: +49 1578 70 77 210
Fax:
+49 681 9302-113869
E-Mail: [email protected]
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